Sad News

I know this is a computer forum, and yeah theres going to be people who are not going to like this..

But we all should pay tribute to this music genius !


Randomizer, I hope you allow this.



But there is not one of you that hasnt got one of his songs on your mp3 player and I just wanted to pay tribute.

I grew up loving his music, his life style and watching him change his appearance for over 30 years.

Im gutted as i had tickets for his 02 concert.

Hounded by the press and was proberly killed by that and what he did to himself.


RIP MJ, Goodnight.

That is a rather bold assumption to make.

I for one have never had a Michael Jackson song on my mp3 player.

But I did feel a little sad to hear of his passing......hopefully his children will be taken care of.

Michael Jackson and Eddie Van Halen. It should never have worked!

He'll be sadly missed.

Watching this on the news yersterday, ABC said theyd be doing a tribute later on, a 1 hour special. I looked to my room mate and said, I just hope they dont play Ben

Enough glorification of this self-absorbed pedarast.

Please tell me we aren't going to have one of these every time a celebrity dies.

LOL - on this I hafta agree with you, B-unit. I remember visiting the 3D theater at Disneyworld (Orlando) in the early '90s, when they had a 3D flick of MJ dancing & singing. After the first child molestation story broke, Disney promptly pulled it and replaced it with something having shooting flames & buzzing bees & whatnot, with a voiceover by some other celebrity whose name I forget.

A shame MJ couldn't have waited a day or two for his Demerol overdose, so as to give Farrah's passing a bit more time on the headline news..

Randomizer is the THW Forum's thread locker.

Agreed, +1 for the big Bee-unit

Of course, MJ did skate on the 2nd molestation charge, and he settled sealed-documents on the first, so nothing was proved legally. However he did admit to "innocently" sleeping with little boys in his bed.

As a groan man with a 2.5-yr-old son, I can tell you that sleeping with my wife & kid who tends to (1)overpee his diaper (2) wake up at all the wee-wee hours of the AM crying & screaming, & (3) flail & kick legs & arms and break your nose or whack your stomach, & - most importantly - (4) ensures that a little sister will never get conceived - is no fun AT ALL!!

Therefore your honour I rest my case that there was something significantly awry with Mr. Michael Jackson!

Did they ?

I bet they did


wow a song about a rat

Hmmn, now I read in the news that MJ's family want to make sure that his "message" doesn't die along with him. I just wonder what they think his "message" was?? He was an entertainer who had a *lot* of personal shortcomings but no message other than "feel good while you watch me sing & dance". We won't go into the other 'messages' his personal behavior seemed to say. So now I think his family will seize this opportunity to cash in on his death - I'm sure there will be lots of 'tributes' & other money-grubbing extravaganzas they will come up with. Sheesh...

IMHO Farrah Fawcett had an actual 'message' to give to the world - fight cancer as best you can, keep your spirits up and go honorably into the dark abyss when you succumb. Too bad that message is now lost in the noise from MJ's death, since his was much more sensational, unexpected and of course the news networks and everyone else wants to profit on that...

Just my 2 cents & now I will butt out so that those who want to honor or otherwise remember the guy can do so...

Well OK here I go butting in again - I think MJ was a decent entertainer, dunno about the "king of pop" status that apparently Elizabeth Taylor conferred upon him (didn't know she was the arbiter of all things pop, but maybe so). However I disagree with all the 'lionizing' & other image rehab going on, mostly by his family and anybody else who wants to profit by his demise. Such as Newsweek (selling ads on their site), Al Sharpton (political agenda), Madonna (probably gonna organize a concert or tour and keep most the $$), etc etc.

So who remembers 'celebrities' from a hundred years ago? If they don't make it into the history books and hence become forced learning, then they fade into obscurity, like Annie Oakley who was probably as relatively big as MJ was, a little over a century ago, famous for sharpshooting in the traveling Buffalo Bill Cody's wild west show that drew tens of thousands of paying customers mainly because they came out to see a woman so different from themselves, one dressed in western garb and who could shoot & ride. Talk about a 2-note act... If I hadn't seen a History channel episode on her life & times, which I found more interesting as a perspective on American life & culture of the times than I did about her, I wouldn't have known much more than her name & that she was the main character in the "Annie get your gun" stage production.

So my guess is that if MJ is even known in the 22nd century, it'll be because people of that time are more fascinated by why we of this time hold such personalities in high regard, and not so much because they wanna see somebody gyrate, moonwalk & sing in falsetto.

SOME REALLY SAD NEWS!!!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529328,00.html

A good man, annoying commercials, but a good man.

Well my eardrums will be glad to know this . Didn't he peddle the infamous bug cannon blaster or some such, to blow dead bug bodies off your windshield? I might just buy one in memoriam, and clean my windshield or chase my neighbor's cat outta my garden..

People cry over MJ, but give no love to Billy Mayes, an actually good man that was good at what he did.

I didnt know who Billy Mayes was but now i do and yes he was a real life hero.

RIP Billy

To me this MJ story gets sadder and sadder whilst the real ass hole his dad gets away with a 43 year belated murder.

Joe Jackson is the reason his son is dead.

He called him ugly every day when he was a child.

Because of this MJ self harmed by what he did to his body.

Joe Jackson beat him every day. Abused him mentally and physically - no wonder he was messed up.

True, but the trouble is that he was then surrounded by scrounging scum bags whose only agenda was theirselves and not MJ.

He needed councelling big time but got none of the support he needed.
He was allowed to carry on doing what he did.

What really gets my goat is who in their right mind would let children stay over a grown mans house - i wouldnt. If he did, or didnt - it was still suspect.

Someone needed to section him and send him away for councelling.

I still wonder if were are in the 21st Centuary sometimes. Weve got all this technology and horrible cases like these and more are happening with increasingly shocking results. Its like human kind is going inwardly backwards because they can't cope with it all.


There was a case over here called "Baby P", look it up and weep. I cried at this one. Why ? is the only thing I can say about it.

[*** ing ugly man if youd burn him the smoke would prob be black from all tha botox and plastic he has all over his body

Having a hard childhood and living through hellish circumstances does not give a person a free pass to be an ass hole, believe me.